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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1938.

INTERNATIONAL GROUP'S VISIT FLIER TELLS OF

TO THE NORTHWEST

The following article was con- tion of our comparatively small tributed to the Central China Post | gifts, Posted on all the walls of by Miss Frances Roots who or the village as we arrived were ganized the party of five foreigners placards bearing greetings to the consisting, besides herself. or International Delegation" and to Deaconess J. A. Clark, Miss R. I. M. | "Our Hankow Guests." The Suess and Messrs John Foster and farmers for

miles around had

"

FINDING GREAT WATERFALL

Never Before Seen

By White Men

In a skyscraper office high above Charles Higgin, for the purpose of heard of our visit and lined the the famous American fler who Wall Street, Mr. "Jimmy" Angell,

from Central America, spoke about recently returned to New York z his discovery of the world's highest waterfall in the heart of Vene-

conveying messages of friendship dusty streets-most of them of and sympathy with the victims of course having never seen a foreis- the war and wintry weather as well ner before. From that time on we as gifts of money, socks, gloves and noticed one outstanding char- other small but very acceptable acteristic about these country zuela

glits).

people who

were facing the

Near the Brazilian frontier. Mr.

were told before leaving horrors of war and the absolute | Angell stated, there stretches 400]

arouse

We Hankow for the northwest that we necessity to educate and were the first international group themselves. They spoke to

miles of wilderness, inhabited only by a few scattered tribes of semi- to visit districts behind the Front Always without hesitation and as

friendship friends and with an extraordinary inaccessible except by neroplane. civilised Indians and virtually bearing and sympathy for the victims of junderstanding of the strange be-This region was explored centuries. war and winter cold. But not havior of our respective countries.

messages of

until we actually presented our Apparently this was the first time ago by Jesuit missionaries and Spanish conquistadores, whose gifts of money, socks, gloves and they had faced anything but the rough maps still exist. small luxuries did we realize the bewildering embarrassment of the significance of hard cash as proof "Friendly Foreign Powers}"

of our fine words.

|

WELCOME MASS MEETING.

The district remained isolated for many decades, however, and it was not until a few years ago. when the quest for oil sent explor-

The reception in itself was over- whelming. But it did not end

A Welcome Mass Meeting was ing parties into the jungle, that there. All the way back from held the following afternoon in a filers discovered uricharted moun- Shansi-on our crowded third class large open courtyard from 5 to 9tains and 籍 tableland, called carriage, crossing the sandy bed o'clock. A inrge banner graced the Mount

Auyantepuy standing

of the Yellow River, in shops and top of the platform: "Salute to 8,000ft high.

tea

“.

houses somehow or other our Honorable Guests.” A table This tableland, which covers..an people had heard of our errand held the piles of money-twenty area of about 300 square miles; and showered us with warm words thousand dollars in single and five had never been penetrated by 04 appreciation and

countless dollar bills. Baskets of socks and white men. From it dows the courtesies and attention. A soldier, gifts Alled one corner of the stage world's highest waterfall to drop on crutches, wounded three and the speakers held forth from 6.000ft sheer from the top to a months ago at Kuo-hsien, insisted the other. We all had been asked plain below. that the huddled. Agures of men to speak. A3 John Foster, of

'PLANE DRENCHED and women crowded into our car Central China College, was in the Long-range photographs in Mr. and sitting in the aisles should midst of a sentence describing the Angell's possession clearly show. not unduly brush our, clothes or contribution of a ton of medical the waterfall cascading from the hinder what little sleep we could supplies from International Red tableland. He flew so close, be said. get sitting bolt upright on a hard Cross Commitee of Cenral China that the machine" was drenched

for the civilians in the northwest, with spray. he was interrupted by a mighty

bench.

THE JOURNEY

In landing his machine became We set out from Hankow in all ar from the crowd: "Long Live bogged, and he and his wife had the luxury of a third class sleep-Long

Cross!" to make their way down as best International they could on foot to an emergency ing car. All extra space was Alled Friends!" "The speeches were camp, from where Venzuelan

the International Red

Live Our

T

the boxes and parcels of followed by plays and songs pre-Government plane finally rescued contributions we were shepherding sented by Ding Ling's Northwest them

with

to the north, although we had to Front Service Group each selec- Mr. Angell, who is employed in leave the major bulk of our lugg-ion polished and clear-a temp gold prospecting. will return in a age to come by a slower tralating taste of what was to come few weeks in another plane to 1000 pair of socks and 1000 pairs when we would go and visit her continue his explorations.

by the

of gloves for the Partisans of the headquarters some miles away. It is to this area that the new cold northwest. Instead of

We spent the last three days "lost" world" expedition-which is suffering from cold we nearly

that first night from the learning all we could of the life sponsored

American of the

Οι soldiers at Headquarters, | Museum Natural History-is heat. During the whole trip col was the least of our worries, even side. Everywhere there was talk of

and of the people in the country-soon setting out.

died

in the spacious and draughty Box

Dust WYS 3

Car which housed us overnight

the United Front. One class we from the Yellow River to Linfen, visited, composed of some new and"

Bercer enemy, and some older recruits, was discussing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's had little respect for the conven- tional decencies of dress or face.

December speech declaring his sifting into every wrinkle and The comments of the soldiers on

policy of resistance against Japanį and at one stage trans- this speech were revealing. One forming us all into creatures of clay-excellent camouflage for air-new recruit in the course of his

crease

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comment said, "The 1063 of Shanghai and Nanking and of so Our route took 139 through many thousands of soldiers has Chengchow and Tungkwan by made the Generalissimo very sad. train into the heart of southern on the other hand he is deter- Shansi, ending in the midst of the

sacrifice to

everything. fertile valley of the Fen River everything. even his own wife, in fertile splits the province from resistance." In front of him as he north to south between high spoke were the pictures of Sun mountains and table Yat Sen and Chiang Kai-shek on land. Everywhere we had the the wall.. hospitality of the Army which gave ILS food when we were hungry, a bed when we were tired, and guards through the most

ranges of

·

GEN. CHU TEH'S SPEECH

The third day of our visit we difficult stretches of the trip for were invited to go to a special the protection of our precious cargo. Mass being held at the Roman It may be well to state clearly here Catholic Church in the village that", though we were escorting along with the General and his supplies and medicines and money staff. After the service when

for the civilian population of the General Chu Teh was asked to north, we were obliged, to accept give a speech he gave a remark- the servces of the army for trans-able exposition on the positions of

port and protecton, as theirs was Christianity and Communiam to-

the only means of ensuring its day.

safe delivery.

A "vast improvement" in busi- ness and a considerable decrease in crime are reported to

have hind resulted from the "experimental" introduction of prohibition in the Salem district of Madras, by the Congress Goverment.

A few Inhabitants on the out-

A Farewell Mass Meeting was

11 REORGANIZED ARMY

held the last afternoon, and speeches were given thanking us for Much of our cargo was to go be our visit and help. As the dilepi- the Japanese. Unes into dated old bus drove out through "occupied" territory, and obviously the crowded streets of the village the army was the only medium of there were shouts of Long Live transportation. This mean that the United Front for Peace!" be-d we saw something of the fighting fore the dust and rattle of force of China, much of which ancient tin blotted out the blue had been only recently reorganized of farmers and soldiers in their Our general impression was one of padded garments and their friend- renewed enthusiasm and optimism. ly cheers. The trip home brought us through towns with soldier's Hwang at Linfen we caught a from the other armies, and oc~ glimpse of the potentiality of these casional glimpses of special volun- new forces, and both at the Eighth teer bands and propective partisan Route Army Headquarters and groups. We wondered if the small elsewhere we met newly formed group of students from Singapore Optional Oargo will not be landed

groups of organized youth-Gover- had reached their destination at hers, unless Notice has been given priez to Vessel's arrival, but carried on from living from the drink-trade these nor Yen Hal San's "Dare to Die the northern fronts, and how soon port to port to the final port of call who tapped cocaanut-trees for Corps."

"The Northwest Front Ding Ling and her thirty students to which the option extends,

"toddy," have accepted the change Service Group" of boys and girls and actors would start

From UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE

skirts of the area cross the border to drink in the "wet districts," but it is stated that there is no longer any drunkenness.

are hereby notified that their Carge will be discharged into Holt'. Whart, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees risk and subject to Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be of the business improvement is ready for Delivery from Godown on that number of small shops is and after 3rd Mar.

rapidly, increasing.

The men who used to make their

The police report a definite drop Terms and Conditions of Storaga in the amount of crime. One sign

In our interview with General Wel

out on

All broken, shafed and damaged Goods in their fortunes philosophically. ander the leadership of China's their two weeks' walk to Blan. are to be left in the Godown, where they some have moved off to other dis famous woman writer, Ding Ling Everywhere were posters and an- will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 xtricts; others are learning to pro- "The Young Vanguardar at Linfen, nouncements breathing encourage- The northwest was ment and optimism. Everywhere and Noor within the Free Storage period, duce molasses from the cocoanuts, and so on.

No Claims will be admitted after the Considerable losses have been alive not only with strengthened people were reading them and Goods have left the Vessel's Godown experienced. however, by the military forces but with a fresh talking about them. And the first and all Goods remaining undelivered majority of the owners of cocoa- current of enthusiasm and service taste of spring was in the air an after the 10th Mar., will be abjsa tonut plantation, the value of whose among the people themselves.

properties has deteriorated heavily. We made our longest visit with newly repaired

Bent

All Claims against the Temel must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th March or they will act be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

..Agents. 4th March, 1938,

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our train crept gingerly over the

tracks leading Nevertheless, despite this ad- the Eighth Route Army at their Into Chungchow, bombed only the vantage, which was considered Headquarters as they were tran-day before. Somehow we had had inevitable, the prohibition expert- sporting most of our contribution a glirapse of the thing that makes ment is reported to be an un- to the Partisans behind the lines. bombings so useless in China. And doubted success from the social Again we found a welcome that we were glad that spring would and moral points of view.

showed an overwhelming apprecle- soon be coming to the northwest."

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